445 pages : 22 cm

Carl Sandburg recalls his childhood in Galesburg, Illinois

Autobiographical

With prefixed leaf stating "The first edition ... is limited to 600 copies on all rag paper numbered and signed by the author, of which 500 copies are for sale."

"First printing"--Title page verso

Ports. on lining papers

Includes index

LC has copy no. 218. In slip case

Source: Gift of Alfred Whital Stern, July 19, 1955

Man-child -- The house on Berrien Street -- Judgment Day -- Father and mother -- The sleeping mortgage -- School days -- Along Berrien Street -- Kid talk--folk talk -- The dirty dozen -- First paydays -- Learning a trade -- Cigarette biographies -- The auditorium -- Prairie town -- "College City" -- "Where shall we go?" -- Theme in shadow and gold -- Pioneers and old-timers -- Hobo -- Soldier -- Prairie sunsets

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